Footsteps of liberty and revolt : essays on wales and the french.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.

France.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Footsteps of liberty & revolt

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University Of Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

This collection of essays by leading scholar explores the turbulent 1790s from a Welsh perspective. As rapidly shifting events in France provoked a range of international responses, literature, religion, history and landscape became vehicles for political expression - and sites of contention. Drawing on a wealth of material in English and Welsh, much of it unpublished, this volume brings into sharp new focus many of the tensions and flashpoints of Romantic-era Wales. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Writing the Revolution in Wales / Mary-Ann Constantine Constantine, Mary-Ann, Dafydd Johnston Johnston, Dafydd 1

2 Wales as Nowhere: the tabula rasa of the 'Jacobin' imagination / Caroline Franklin Franklin, Caroline 11

3 Rousseau and Wales / Heather Williams Williams, Heather 35

4 'Our first concern as lovers of our country must be to: enlighten it': Richard Price's response to the French Revolution / Paul Frame Frame, Paul, Geoffrey W. Powell Powell, Geoffrey W. 53

5 The Welsh in Revolutionary Paris / Mary-Ann Constantine Constantine, Mary-Ann 69

6 The 'Marseillaise' in Wales / Marion Löffler Löffler, Marion 93

7 The 'Rural Voltaire' and the 'French madcaps' / Geraint H. Jenkins Jenkins, Geraint H. 115

8 Networking the nation: the bardic and correspondence networks of Wales and London in the 1790s / Cathryn A. Charnell-White Charnell-White, Cathryn A. 143

9 Radical adaptation: translations of medieval Welsh poetry in the 1790s / Dafydd Johnston Johnston, Dafydd 169

10 'Brave Republicans': representing the Revolution in a Welsh interlude / Ffion Mair Jones Jones, Ffion Mair 191

11 'A good Cambrio-Briton': Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams and the Welsh sublime in the 1790s / Jon Mee Mee, Jon 213

12 What is a national Gothic? / Murray Pittock Pittock, Murray 231

13 Terror, treason and tourism: the French in Pembrokeshire 1797 / Hywel M. Davies Davies, Hywel M. 247

14 The voices of war: poetry from Wales 1794-1804 / Elizabeth Edwards Edwards, Elizabeth 271

15 The Revd William Howels (1778-1832) of Cowbridge and London: the making of an anti-radical / Stephen K. Roberts Roberts, Stephen K. 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0708325904

9780708325902

OCLC:

809911127